site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Thread-index: AcpBd+TgAQHix/hjRTic2LgUA3cUxQAPUtJw Thread-topic: LaunchAgents in Tiger Hi, perhaps this is a little off topic, but I thought that LaunchAgents was introduced in Tiger and was working ok? It seems ok when I test it, but this is on a 10.4.11 machine. Do you have these problems only on earlier versions of Tiger, or is it Tiger in general? Regards Dave -----Original Message----- From: installer-dev-bounces+david.glover=prometheanworld.com@lists.apple.com [mailto:installer-dev-bounces+david.glover=prometheanworld.com@lists.app le.com] On Behalf Of Ryan McGann Sent: 30 September 2009 03:42 To: installer-dev@lists.apple.com Subject: Re: LaunchAgents in Tiger On Sep 29, 2009, at 12:07 PM, installer-dev-request@lists.apple.com wrote:

Hello all,

My installer install a program, which i needed to run at user-login. Now for the same i have written a LaunchAgent but the problem is it is not launching at user-login.

I put the plist file at /Library/LaunchAgents

Also when logged in, if from terminal, if i fire:

launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/com.launchd.myprogram.plist (which has RunAtLoad = true).

In the /var/log/system.log i get launchd[2..2] com.launchd.myprogram:exited abnormally: Abort Trap

However, if i run :

sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/com.launchd.myprogram.plist

Everything works fine.

I tried the same on a leopard and snow leopard box and everything works fine there without any problem. What is is that i am missing in Tiger? LaunchAgents are broken in Tiger. You must be using Leopard to use them. In Tiger, you can modify the LoginItems directly hwich is technically unsupported, but I doubt Apple is going to break it now. Google should be able to find you the code to modify the com.apple.loginwindow.plist, or you can just open it up in Tiger and figure it out--it's not terribly difficult.

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